In fact, the pinker shade of white is caused by blooms of normally invisible algae.
French researchers say they change colour to protect themselves from ultraviolet light and that they may be proliferating due to global warming. They have just published their preliminary findings in
Frontiers in Plant Science. “When you ski, you slide over these micro-algae,” said Eric Maréchal, the head of a plant physiology lab at Grenoble Alpes University and a leader of the project. “But you don’t notice them because they are green and less numerous,” he told
The Telegraph. “They live off carbon dioxide and light. Then come bacteria that eat them.
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